National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Purdue University.
Elvert Theodore “Junior” Nelson was born on September 18, 1926 in Hordville, Nebraska. After graduating from Hordville High School in 1943, Junior first went to work in agriculture and later at the Ordnance Plant in Grand Island, also known as the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, which was responsible for pouring bombs and high explosive artillery […]
Julie Langham Grilly was a laboratory technician at the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico. She was married to Dr.
Joseph W. Kennedy (1916-1957) was an American chemist. In 1940 he co-discovered plutonium with Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.
Opal MacDonald was a stenographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.